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The science fiction novel Death’s End, written by Chinese author Cixin Liu and translated into English by Ken Liu, has been chosen as one of the Best Novel finalists at this year's Hugo Awards.

The novel is the third part of the science fiction trilogy entitled Remembrance of Earth’s Past, which also includes the Hugo Award-winning novel The Three-Body Problem (2007) and The Dark Forest (2008).

While the original Chinese version was published in 2010, the English version by Ken Liu, who previously translated the first book, was published in September last year.

The trilogy, commonly known as the Three-Body Problem, depicts a series of interactions between earth and an alien species during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).

Best science fiction or fantasy

The Hugo Awards are a set of awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.

Organised by the World Science Fiction Society and first awarded in 1953, winners of the 2017 Hugo Awards will be announced at the 75th Worldcon being held in Helsinki, Finland on August 12.

The other finalists for Best Novel include Charlie Jane Anders’ All the Birds in the Sky, Becky Chambers’ A Closed and Common Orbit, Yoon Ha Lee’s Ninefox Gambit, N. K. Jemisin’s The Obelisk Gate, and Ada Palmer’s Too Like the Lightning.